• STAAD Pro Version 22.10.00.153

    WE HAVE TRIED WITH THE FOLLOWING AVAILABLE COLD FORMED SECTIONS: Angle With Lips - 1 Double Angle (LD) Double Angle(SD) Channel With Lips Channel Without Lips Double Channel Back to Back Double Channel Front to Front Zee With Lips …
  • RAM Frame Diaphragm Stiffness Clarification

    I am working on a structure that has a flooring system of 3/4" concrete board spanning between cold-form metal joists at 16" O.C. The joists span up to 20' between wide-flange moment and braced frames. In an effort to simplify the modeling for this multi…
  • Cold Formed Shapes Not Supported on AISI 2016

    Greetings, I am trying to design some Cold Formed beam members in a canopy, but when I run the model I get the following message for ALL cold formed members: ERROR # 16 ~ MEMBER- 83 DESIGN FOR SECTION SHAPE IS NOT SUPPORTED. I am currently using…
  • Portal Frames

    Hi all, I didn't find a field for Microstran so I'm posting my question here. Hope you don't mind I haven't used Microstran before and was wondering if it has a Portal Frame Builder similar to SpaceGass, and if so, whether it's capable of modelling…